Two candelabra, anonymous, c. 1750

Identification

Title(s)

Two candelabra
Zwaan van veelkleurig beschilderd porselein, in montuur van brons
Twee kandelabers

Object type

Object number

BK-17501-B

Inscriptions / marks

factory mark

Description

Zwaan van polychroom porselein, op voetstuk met plastische bladversiering in blauwgroen, groen en geel. De zwaan heeft om de hals een ring van verguld brons. De zwaan is geplaatst in een verguld bronzen montuur in rococo-stijl, in de vorm van een boom waaraan bladeren en bloemen van porselein in blauw, oranjerood, groen, geel, roze, violet en bruin. De zwaan is gemerkt.

Creation

Artist

maker: anonymous
porcelain company: Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur
Johann Joachim Kändler (after)
porcelain company: Vincennes
Marie-Henriette Gravant-Mille

Place

maker: Paris
porcelain company: Meissen
Meissen
porcelain company: Vincennes
Vincennes

Dating

c. 1748 and/or c. 1750

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

painting technique / gild

Measurements

height 42.5 cm
height 22 cm

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transferred 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

See the provenance for BK-17501-A.

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Relations

Documentation

Paris 1650-1900 : decorative arts in the Rijksmuseum, Reinier J. Baarsen, p. 202-205, cat.nr. 48
Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, p. 416-417, cat.nr. 305
Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten : [Sammlung Mannheimer], p. 99, cat.nr. Taf.184
Katalog der Sammlung F[ritz] M[annheimer], P.285, cat.nr. Po.107 a,b
Meissen en het Journal van Lazare Duvaux, Abraham Lambertus den Blaauwen, afb. 5
Old Furniture (The Collector) 11 (1930), afb. p. 46.

Persistent URL

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